More than 36 million trees died across California last year — almost triple the number of trees that perished the year before — scattered across 2.6 million acres of the drought-ridden state ...

A recent federal survey found that California lost more than 36 million trees just in the last year. The large-scale die-off is alarming ecologists and policymakers.

Big Red stood a hundred feet tall, with a trunk so wide that if it were hollow, you could lay down inside it and go to sleep. On the day the chainsaws were scheduled to start, neighbors and tree ...

Roughly 36.3 million dead trees were counted across California in 2022, a dramatic increase from previous years that experts are blaming on drought, insects and disease, according to a report by ...

California is home to the largest, tallest and oldest trees that inhabit this planet. California has the largest number of individuals of the five conifer genera. Let’s take a look at these ...

One of the largest tree die-offs in California history, which has turned evergreen forests into a bleak canvas of oranges and browns, appears to be subsiding after nearly a decade of wreckage. New ...

The future looks challenging for California’s big trees. By 2100, the state’s average temperature could rise by as much as 9°F compared to the late 20th century, raising the overall water ...

Giant sequoias badly burned in Calaveras County 02:18. CALAVERAS COUNTY — A pair of iconic Calaveras County giant sequoia trees in Big Trees State Park are badly burned after they became ...

More than three years after a wildfire devastated Big Basin Redwoods State Park in the Santa Cruz Mountains, the massive redwood trees in California’s oldest state park continue to recover with ...

For the Joshua tree — an internationally recognized symbol of California — fire has become an existential threat. When they burn, they burn fast. And they rarely survive.

Researchers used LANDSAT satellite data to document how tree-cover changed in California from 1985 to 2021, being shrunk by wildfires, logging, and droughts.